You loved the zine, now love the online resource. stolensharpierevolution.org went live last week. The instigator? Alex Wrekk of the DIY zine resource Stolen Sharpie Revolution: a DIY Zine Resource (and the zine Brainscan, among others). The site is a companion to the book, just in time for the tenth anniversary of the first edition of the book. stolensharpierevolution.org features constant updating of things like zine distribution resources like distros and stores that buy and sell zines, zine-related event listing, international zine-related contacts and more.
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Are you a Chicago-based zinester or a zine-friendly reader? One of our Quimby faves, Jami Sailor, wants to hear from you. Here she is, we’ll put her on the line…
Recently I did a reading at Quimby’s that evolved into a talk about how we get into zines, the first zine we encounter and how that encounter has influenced us, and other first experiences relating to zines. This lead me to 
want to make a project focusing on this topic ZINES and FIRST TIMES = the first time you heard about zines, the first zine you ever got, your first zine fest (attending or tabling), the first time you bought something from a distro or from a brick and mortar store like Quimby’s, first time reviewed in Factsheet 5, Zine World, MMR, any first relating to zines.
Please consider submitting. For the first issue I am focusing on (present and past) zinesters currently living in the Chicago area. The deadline for the first issue will be April 1, 2012. Submissions can be text, comics, or a combination. You can submit a comic, write an essay, submit a photograph, your choice. If you would prefer I could also interview you on this topic. Just let me know.
Topic: Firsts relating to zines
Deadline: April 1, 2012
Format: I will layout text pieces unless you have thoughts about how your piece should be laid out. No word limit. If you are submitting a comic or graphic-based piece, the dimensions are half letter size. Try to keep your comic four pages and under.
If you are interested in submitting let me know, and I will harass you. If you are not interested let me know, and I will not harass you. If I don’t hear from you, you may be harassed. Please forward this onto any current or past zine and mini-comic creators you think might be interested. I would really appreciate it. Thanks for your time and I look forward to your submissions!
Jami Sailor,
yoursecretaryzine (at) gmail (dot) com
Introducing…..
Mash Tun
A Journal about Craft Beer
The Mash Tun is a paean to craft beer. It follows the pleasures and aesthetics of craft beer and how it intersects with food, culture, and society.
The Mash Tun will feature interviews and profiles with brewery owners, beer lovers, brewmasters, beer distributors, scientists, industry impresarios, coopers, bottle makers, bar owners, home brewers and anyone who loves and is part of the process of making beer. There will features about figures in the industry as well as historical narratives. Short and long form entries will be interspersed with recipes, comics and photography featuring participating breweries, bars and restaurants.
The Mash Tun will be a four-color, 120-160 + page, perfect bound publication that takes the from of a journal and it will be published by Public Media Institute (PMI), producer of Lumpen, Proximity, Materiel and other periodicals. PMI is a non profit arts organization that produces publications, festivals and host cultural events in Chicago and sometimes elsewhere. Its home is in Bridgeport.
Volume 1 Issue 1 will launch during Craft Beer Week.
If you like writing about beer then you should participate. Send them a one paragraph pitch, a writing sample or two, and email edmarlumpen (at) gmail.com There is room for a few more pieces.
The deadline for texts on Issue 1 is March 1, 2012.
| Jan ’12 |
| 14 |
| 7:00 pm |
Perhaps you were not able to participate in the 2011 Revenge of Print Challenge by getting your zine or comic out. Or perhaps you need some encouragement. Do you work well under deadlines? Perhaps you’re addicted to the adrenal rush of zine crafting?
Well, you’re in luck.
The 24-Hour Zine Challenge is for you. Starting Sat, 1/14 at 7pm and going until 7pm on Sun 1/15 here at Quimby’s, we invite you to come in and make your zine within 24 hours. And we’ll let you crash at our pad. By “pad” we mean on our floor.
We’ll provide: paper, minimal scanner use, zine supplies such as a long arm stapler, some food, power strips, temporary free wifi.
You provide: sleeping gear, ideas, stamina, your computer or typewriter (if that’s your thing)
AND THEN! Want to read from your zine here at one of our events? On Sat, Jan 28th we’ll be having the ZINES MADE AT THE QUIMBY’S 24 HOUR ZINE CHALLENGE EVENT.
Please RSVP to info(at)quimbys(dot)com for the 24 Hour Zine Challenge by Wed, Jan 11th. because there is limited space available. Only RSVP’d zinesters will be allowed in the store between midnight and 6am. Visitors are welcome at all other times. The store will be open until midnight (usually we close at 10pm on Saturday nights).
Get your New Year’s zine resolution resolved before the first month of 2012 is over.
Sat, Jan 14th 7pm to Sun, Jan 15th 7pm
Three news pieces.
Firstly, we are saddnend to hear of the passing of Sparkplug publisher Dylan Williams. Williams had been battling cancer. We send our condolences to his family and friends.
Congratulations to our own Edie Fake, who won a 2011 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel for his book Gaylord Phoenix.
Billy McCall (aka Billy Da Bunny) of Proof I Exist zine moved to New Mexico and got involved with the ABQ Zine Fest 9/30-10/2, and as part of the fest, he’s hosting The First Annual ABQ Zine Fest OLYMPICS on 10/1 with events like Speed Stapling, Precision Folding, and Synchronized Zining. Yes, you read that correctly. So, if you’re in Albuquerque in a few weeks, go and git yer zine on.
Here are the top 10 bestsellers of last week:
1. F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel by Dan Sinker and Biz Stone (Simon) $12.00
2. Tiki Magazine vol 7 #2 $5.99
3. The Believer #83 Sep 11 $8.00
4. Wrongful Convictions: Causes, Solutions, and How You Can Get Involved by The Innocence Project $2.50 – This zine outlines the basic ways wrongful convictions easily happen in the current American justice model, develops solutions and talks to activists about what their approaches are towards changing the system. Clear, informative, hopeful and helpful.
5. I Dont Understand Farming #6 $.75
6. I Will Bite You and Other Stories by Joseph Lambert $14.00 – 2011 Ignatz Winner for Outstanding Artist! Weird and toothsome stories of child-planetary interaction, monsterous consumption, ants-in-the-pants urgency and geometric breakdown. Lambert’s drawings have an assured mischieviousness like Steve Weissman’s early Lemon Kids, and these tales operate in a cosmic system that eschews outright snark and didactic symbolism in favor of suprising solutions and original visions. -EF
7. Chicago Street Art by Joseph J. Depre, Oscar Arriola, etc. $15.00 – Text by Joseph J Depre and photos by Oscar Arriola, Chris Diers, Thomas Fennell IV and Patrick Hershberger. A love letter of sorts to Chicago and its many street artists, photos published here so that when the art gets graffiti blasted they’ve been documented somewhere. With work by such artists as Tiptoe, Artillery, The Viking and more. Traverlers, fuck bringing home a snowglobe from the souvenir stand. Get this book instead.
8. Just Kids by Patti Smith (Ecco) $16.00
9. Exxxtinction: 1st Known Circle Jirk by Sy Loady $3.00
10. Warmer by Aiden Koch (Sparkplug) $5.00 – Koch’s moody, pencilled mini builds itself out of vaguely nihilist non-events. Pregnant pauses dwell on crumpled clothes and antique light fixtures, limbs and patterns. The structure plays itself long and loose, the slow clues that build narrative poignancy do an equal turn at washing away any meaning so we’re left with the dissolution of an empty visit to an empty day. -EF
